December 2009

Celebrity Deaths — and the impact of an ‘overly Twittered culture’

December 22, 2009 Online Reputation

Image via Wikipedia An interesting blog this morning from the Washington Post. The added underlined emphasis is mine. Celebrity Deaths — and the impact of an ‘overly Twittered culture’ by Adam Bernstein Lisa France, a writer and producer at CNN.com, has this story today on celebrity death of 2009 and why it may appear to [...]

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Two recommended Facebook privacy guides

December 17, 2009 Online Reputation

Confused about Facebook’s new privacy changes? No surprise if you are, the changes are sweeping. Here are two good up-to-date quality guides that I recommend. From Reputation Defender (user-friendly with multiple screenshots) From the ACLU Dotrights.org site (detailed, comprehensive, tabular grids showing options. Can be a bit intimidating for the novice) Confused or not, you [...]

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Brandjacking alert – fraudsters steal entire website and company identity in international scam

December 15, 2009 Cybercrime

Well known virtual assistant outsourcing company AskSunday.com is the victim of a serious case of brandjacking. The entire identity and website code of AskSunday.com has been copied and setup as another website with a similar sounding domain name, AskSundayllc.com, which has been online for a few weeks. The operators of the fraudulent site are actively [...]

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